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Damon Linker Owns the New Atheists
Damon Linker, a contributor to the New Republic, is, to my mind, one of the more insightful writers on religion and irreligion writing in the United States today. In a recent interview with The Economist, Linker offers what I can only describe … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheists, Camus, damon linker, freedom, jerry coyne, new atheism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Socrates, Voltaire
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Is Atheist Morality an Oxymoron? Philosopher Joel Marks Gives Up on Right and Wrong
I find philosopher Joel Marks’s recent flat-out rejection of morality disarming in its honesty. Here’s Joel Marks: The long and the short of it is that I became convinced that atheism implies amorality; and since I am an atheist, I must … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, beatrice, Charles Darwin, dante, Friedrich Nietzsche, God, joel marks, morality, philosophy
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Prometheus Unbound 